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I’m currently reading a book about anti-gravity lads.

It’s so good I can’t put it down.

TAKE MY WIFE!

    Is this how it’s going to be through 2025, Ed?

    Top drawer bants delivered with panache?

    It is Millsy!

    Smallman1 I’m currently reading a book about anti-gravity lads

    When Ed says “anti-gravity lads”, he means “men with erections”.

    Finished rereading all of Joe Hill’s books. That guy sure has no problems with an unhappy ending, especially in his shorter fiction. The novella Loaded on the collection Strange Weather is particularly cruel. Felt like a book version of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games-movies.

    Next year’s plans are to start reading Le Carre. I’m at the absolutely right age now.

    Are you still wading through the Mr Men series Ed?

    Am currently reading That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz by Malachy Tallack MC.

    Which is nice.

      Reread Empire of the Summer Moon about the last stand of the Comanche Indians and Quanah Parker. Incredible story. If they made a movie about this particular tribe it would make Apocalypto look like a Christmas panto for 4 year olds. The savagery is unheard of. For example, having your gut sliced open and hot coals from the fire carefully placed inside just to get the party started.

        Smallman1
        Makes me happy to see you’re not reading a book who’s pages are made from cardboard and fuzzy felt

        LT42 having your gut sliced open and hot coals from the fire carefully placed inside just to get the party started.

        Craftsmanship of the highest order LT.

        Cap doffed

        I went down a rabbit hole on the Comanche, scary bunch and pretty adept with their weaponry. It wasn’t unusual to find a victim of their attacks with around a hundred arrows lodged in them. Sounds pretty run of the mill until you realise all of those arrows would be found in the victim’s head. I don’t think they had psychological testing back then.

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        I read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Looking Glass War by John Le Carre. Tremendous stuff, really looking forward to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy now. The 2011-film is in my all time top 10 list quite easily. Never understood folks complaining it’s hard to follow. I guess they were on their phones while watching it.

        Just finished City of Thieves by David Benioff (he wrote The 25th Hour)

        Highly recommended

        4.99 / 5

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        Don Winslow - City on Fire. Stephen King likes this guys writing so much HE went as a customer to one of Winslow’s signings.

        This is Irish mobsters in a gang war with Italian mafia in Providence, Rhode Island in the 1980s and was just as awesome as that sounds. Austin Butler will be producing and starring in a film adaptation of this. The way the book is it should be difficult to fuck up making a movie out of it, put I guess it’s always possible.

          Homegrove
          That sounds right up my alley. It’s only 99 pence for a kindle

          Homegrove Read this last year. First in the ‘Danny Ryan’ trilogy

          Certainly enjoyed it but I’d put the Cartel trilogy by Winslow above this

            wrongun this is the first book of his I’ve read, so I have good times ahead of me, lots to read.

            14 days later

            John Le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

            I put of reading this for a long time because I love the 2011 film adaptation so much. Silly of me to think the book would make me feel any less about the movie. While the novel is possibly the best spy thriller of all time so is the film one of the best adaptations ever. If anything I now like the movie more, it is so expertly done, fully adapting the novel, not being afraid to change things to make them more filmatic, or less internalized. All the while fully keeping to the heart of the novel, if not the letter. Especially the multiple timelines in the film (the book is quite straightforward) which have made it difficult to follow for lesser minds (sorry) are a genius invention to actually simplify the story.

            The old BBC adaptation is impossible to watch here legally, might have to venture to the high seas for the first time in a long time to finally watch it.